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Yarmouth South Town bench

Yarmouth South Town bench

1862-1922
Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

1905
Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875
Great Eastern Hotels

Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s
St Pauls Cathedral divine service

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919
Great Eastern Railway menu card

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912
GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

1910
Parkeston Quay Harwich

Parkeston Quay Harwich

1912
Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle, two glasses cracked, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by EC & JK Ltd.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle

Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

1888
Station seat, Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway, slatted from front to back, wood, painted green, plates attached: "GRIMSBY C.B. FOR PASSENGERS ONLY", in use at the Corporation Bridge terminus.

Station Seat, Great Eastern Railway

1912-1922
Harlow Garden Village

Harlow Garden Village

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle, green glass missing, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by Saxby & Farmer, London.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle

portrait of charles hubbard

portrait of charles hubbard

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

1914
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

1903
Headboard, Great Eastern Railway, cast iron, royal coat-of-arms.

Royal coat-of-arms headboard, Great Eastern Railway

1862-1923
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

1907
Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

1903-1911
Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922
Telegraph Block Instrument, Great Eastern Railway, 2-position absolute block type, sending and receiving with tapper and combined gong.

Telegraph Block Instrument

Headboard, Royal Coat-of-Arms, Great Eastern Railway, carried by the train which conveyed the Duke and Duchess of York from Liverpool Street, London to Wolferton, for Sandringham, following their wedding in July 1893.

Royal Coat of Arms, Great Eastern Railway

1893
Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919
Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter ‘Engineers Saloon’ enclosing ‘GER’, by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

1893
Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter, 'Engineer's Saloon' enclosing 'GER', by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900
Map of Great Eastern Railway main lines and connections, on reverse suburban lines and connections, scale 1 mile - 1 ".

Map of Great Eastern Railway

1900-1923
Tickets, card tickets in buckram-covered guard books, photograph album and box, GER, GNR and LNER Specimen Ticket Collection, 1900s to 1930s. The collection comprises specimen Edmondson-type tickets of every class and type from the GNR and the LNER. Tickets are numbered 0000 and many are stamped 'Specimen.' Many of the tickets are grouped by the LNER operating sections, and there are unusual and rare items such as perambulator tickets, tickets for agricultural shows, exhibition tickets etc. etc. The GER tickets include WC, sailor on duty and music hall artist tickets. Housed in 9 guard books and 1 modern photo album, plus 2 small boxes of loose tickets. Several thousand tickets in total. Collection originated at the Railway Printing Office, Stratford, East London, which was established by the GER and continued by the LNER. The specimens were saved by the last Master Printer, a Mr. Townley, on the closure of the office in the 1950s. He passed the collection to his son, who bequeathed it to The National Archives.

GNR and LNER Specimen Ticket Collection

1900-1939
Platform bench, Great Eastern Railway, monogram on bench ends, cast by Warner, London, 1900-1910.

Platform Bench, Great Eastern Railway

1900-1910
Portfolio of original and blue print general arrangement locomotive drawings from various companies collected by Sir William McAlpine. Most drawings are signed by chief mechanical engineers responsible. Includes drawings for locomotives from Great Southern Railway (Ireland), Great Southern & Western Railway (Ireland), Grand Trunk Railway (Cananda) Great Northern Railway, Great Eastern Railway, London, Chatham and Dover Railway, Rhodesia Railways (built by North British Locomotive Company), London and North Western Railway, as well as the Para Central De Aragon (Spain) 2-8-2+2-8-2 Garratt locomotive, 4-6-2 Type 10 locomotive for Belgian Railways.

McAlpine Drawing Collection

1849-1940
Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'Tottenham, Wood Green, Enfield', undated early 1900's, hand tinted to highlight detail, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway

1900
Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'East London', undated early 1900's, hand tinted for detail, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway, East London

1900
Map, system map, Great Eastern Railway, 1919, published/printed by GER, drawn by L Dix, paper-backed linen.

Map, system map

1919
Cap Badge, Great Eastern Railway, GER scroll script initials, Dimensions: 2 1/4"x1".

Cap badge, Great Eastern Railway

Drawing, scale 4 feet to 1 inch, elevation of Great Eastern Railway city terminus (Liverpool Street), in glazed frame, 1155mm x 820mm.

Liverpool Street

circa 1865-circa 1922
Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area, Hills Road to Mill Road, scale 1 chain - 1" Great Eastern Railway land agent's office, revised 1909.

Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area

1909
Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'Felixstowe (part of)', 1902, 25.3 inches to 1 mile, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway, Felixstowe (part of)

1902
Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'Felixstowe', 1903, 25.3 inches to 1 mile, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map from Great Eastern Railway entitled 'Felixstowe',

1903
Great Eastern Railway Ponders End Diagram of Signals - Great Eastern Railway water-coloured diagram of signals at Ponders End station. On linen-backed cartridge paper. Dated 16 May 1916.

Ponders End Diagram of Signals, Great Eastern Railway

1916-05-16
Collection of wagon labels, luggage labels, tickets and various goods invoices and forms. Companies include: British Railways; Great Eastern Railway; Great Northern Railway; Great Western Railway; London Midland & Scottish Railway; London & North Eastern Railway (selection of wagon labels from Tadcaster to various locations); North Eastern Railway; Great Orme Railway etc.

Collection of wagon labels, luggage labels, tickets, invoices and other forms

Button, GER, Waistcoat button, depicts dragon's wing within star, silver plate, Dimensions: 1/2" dia.

GER waistcoat button

Button, Great Eastern Railway, Coat button, depicts dragon's wing within star, silver plate, Dimensions: 1" dia.

Coat button, Great Eastern Railway

Volume, paper with board covers, re-bound, Loco Engine Stock, Great Eastern Railway, manuscript copy kept by A.J. Hill, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GER, Stratford Works. Originally written up circa 1904, corrected to 1 April 1921 and again to 10 October 1923. Gives details of locomotives, their numbers, wheels, dimensions, brakes, dates of modifications, when broken up etc.

Loco Engine Stock

1904-1923